The influence of additive property on performance of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

Polymer Bulletin

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2145-2174

  Liu, Jiangang ^a   Han, Yanchun ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Additive; Crystallinity; Phase separation; Polythiophene; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; FILM-FORMING; MICROWAVE ANNEALING; ORGANIC BULK-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTY; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; POLY-THIOPHENE; POST ANNEALING; SELECTION PRINCIPLES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SOLAR CELLS;

ADDITIVES;

EID: 84862785750     PISSN: 01700839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00289-012-0721-2     Document Type: Article

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